stuck in a rut - need to move on from admin

Horace

rj2009 wrote: »

work in gyms involves anti-social hours and the pay is awful, much less than my clerical role.

This sounds like another exuse to me - you cannot expect with your 2:2 degree to start off at Richard Branson's level and then work down...all of us know that you have to start at the bottom and work your way up. Don't whatever you do become self employed as you will end up working unsociable hours at least whilst you are starting off.

Not wanting to be rude, i think you need to grow up a bit. If you want a different career then you will have to study or just swap one admin job for another - its your decision really. Have you thought about sports massage? oh silly me, that would involve more study and you have already said that you don't want to study:rolleyes:

bristol_pilot

A 2:2 in sports science is worthless, sorry. You are going to have to train from scratch if you want a professional career. AAT is a good option.

inmypocketnottheirs

cazziebo wrote: »

It's a bit of a step up from the basic admin you're doing now. This might sound very harsh but a lower second in sports science is not a fabulous qualification, providing a passport to a challenging career.

Sounds to me like you have a dozen excuses on the shelf to prevent you moving on - low pay, unsocial hours, not grad level, don't want to study, don't want to put the effort in.

If you do want a great job then you have to recognise that it doesn't happen by magic. I think you have to sort out your own head first. Decide what you really want to do and then don't let the barriers stand in your way. Only you can sort this.. nobody else.

Could not have put it better!

janninew

bristol_pilot wrote: »

A 2:2 in sports science is worthless, sorry. You are going to have to train from scratch if you want a professional career. AAT is a good option.

This is very true! You would struggle to even get a job in a gym with this degree! My ex has a degree in Sports Science and decided when he had finished that he wanted to be a personal trainer. The degree did not qualify him and he had to spend another three thousand doing a diploma in Personal training, the degree was truely worthless!!

Working in a gym would require you to do further training in gym instruction at a level 2, the YMCA do this qualification for around five hundred pounds!

Good luck.

coffee_prince

ATM My degree is worthless too, got a 2:1 which is okay but stuck in retail atm...

Sports trainers don't get a lot, and the ones that get the jobs have a qualification for it. The hours are random, my friend only gets £6k a year but its not full time hours of course

A bit off topic but I think they should split degree classification into upper 1st, lower 1st to distinguish between someone who gets 69% and someone who gets 60%, I'd certianly benefit from it

El_Rey

coffee_prince wrote: »

ATM My degree is worthless too, got a 2:1 which is okay but stuck in retail atm...

Sports trainers don't get a lot, and the ones that get the jobs have a qualification for it. The hours are random, my friend only gets £6k a year but its not full time hours of course

A bit off topic but I think they should split degree classification into upper 1st, lower 1st to distinguish between someone who gets 69% and someone who gets 60%, I'd certianly benefit from it

Sorry to go slightly off topic, but I've always thought a 2:1 was a good result? Excuse my ignorance, but I've never been to uni so don't fully understand the scoring system.

coffee_prince

A lot of people are getting 2:1, similar to how many a level people are getting A grades. I think they should further break down the scoring as someone who gets 70% and 80% get the same grade, as does someone who gets 60% and 69%

cuthbertlilly

cazziebo wrote: »

It's a bit of a step up from the basic admin you're doing now. This might sound very harsh but a lower second in sports science is not a fabulous qualification, providing a passport to a challenging career.

Sounds to me like you have a dozen excuses on the shelf to prevent you moving on - low pay, unsocial hours, not grad level, don't want to study, don't want to put the effort in.

If you do want a great job then you have to recognise that it doesn't happen by magic. I think you have to sort out your own head first. Decide what you really want to do and then don't let the barriers stand in your way. Only you can sort this.. nobody else.

cazziebo, did you cut and paste your reply from elsewhere?
my "basic admin" job involves overseeing a £1.5 million yearly budget is spent correctly and all sort of other office tasks (you've just made an assumption).
excuse my ignorance, but from where I come from a 2:2 degree is not a bad achievement overall! (bearing in mind 30% of my cohort got 5 A-Cs at GCSE).
i'm not using excuses, just looking for some useful input as to interesting careers that are not desk bound and sufficiently different from admin. drop the psychologist bit and only post back replies when you can come up with constructive efforts.

cuthbertlilly

Happy_Girl wrote: »

Why on earth did you choose to do a degree in sports if you don't like the work prospects it offers you?

get real, why do people do history or english degrees when there's no job directly related to them?

cuthbertlilly

Horace wrote: »

This sounds like another exuse to me - you cannot expect with your 2:2 degree to start off at Richard Branson's level and then work down...all of us know that you have to start at the bottom and work your way up. Don't whatever you do become self employed as you will end up working unsociable hours at least whilst you are starting off.

Not wanting to be rude, i think you need to grow up a bit. If you want a different career then you will have to study or just swap one admin job for another - its your decision really. Have you thought about sports massage? oh silly me, that would involve more study and you have already said that you don't want to study:rolleyes:

whoever mentioned Richard Branson Horace?
you need to learn to post constructive replies, and yes you were meaning to be rude!
i never said that I didn't want to study, just not sure about 3 years of accounts study. get with it Horace.